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Hi Walt - I am hoping I can use the Roxio Video Capture USB device. The camera make/model is an old Canon NTSC ZR50MC Digital Video Camcorder. Any experience with this kind of setup?

Your video camcorder has a 4-pin connector port (based on IEEE-1394), which is a firewire port out. Does your computer have a firewire (IEEE-1394) port? If so, it is probably a 6-pin port, unless you have a laptop. If your computer is a laptop, it will probably have a 4-pin port, if it has that port.

You will then need a 4-pin to 6-pin firewire cable or a 4-pin to 4-pin firewire cable. I have no clue if Windows 10 supports firewire.

Edited September 12, 2015 by grandpabruce

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Yes, the camcorder has a firewire port out but the laptop does not. That is why I am hoping I could use the Roxio Video Capture USB device and put that between my laptop and my camcorder. It looks like the software recgnzies the Roxio device but the status is reporting No Signal.

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Yes, the camcorder has a firewire port out but the laptop does not. That is why I am hoping I could use the Roxio Video Capture USB device and put that between my laptop and my camcorder. It looks like the software recgnzies the Roxio device but the status is reporting No Signal.

How are you connected? Exact description please. Does playback work when you connect the camcorder to a TV?

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I have the camcorder hooked up to an AV to RCA cord. That cord is connected to the Roxio Video Capture USB device through the red/yellow/white cables (newbie remember).

Using that setup, I hooked it up to the USB on my TV and it did not work. I also tried connecting it to the TV with just the AV to RCA cord (no Roxio VC USB).

That didn't work either although the TV recognized something connected to the AV2 input.

Try a new cable? I'm going back to the camcorder instructions to see if there is a setting on it somewhere that I need to change.

Thanks again for your assistance and your patience with a noob like me.

You mean that you do not get playback when you connect the camcorder directly to the TV? Did you change the settings on the camcorder for playback? Have you read the manual to see how to do playback from the camcorder?

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I am puzzled by the part: "I hooked it up to the USB on my TV and it did not work"

If you actually connected Camcorder >>> Capture USB Device>>> TV, I can assure you that will never work!

The USB signal from the Capture USB Device will ONLY work with the software.

While I am not up to speed on various TVs, I find it strange that you have a TV that supports USB input AND Composite Input??? Most that have USB input would only have Component and HDMI. Composite is not the same as Component and the two cannot work together. - I take that back, my oldest LCD TV (8 years old) does support 6 different inputs (hdmi, composite, S-video, component, USB and VGA)

In spite of that, make sure you are not connecting Camcorder Component to TV Composite (hint, NO yellow plug in Component)

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Jim, some TVs that have Component colored video inputs, actually support a composite signal that is plugged into the Green Component signal. Not sure how but they can detect the Composite signal, and internally switch to use it accordingly. I think my TV has that capability.

Also, in video 'file size' is irrelevant! Everything is based on time and 'file size' is the result of Time and mega bits per second.

I looked back through this Topic I don't really see what your output goal is here? You mention "transfer to my computer" but are you specifically after only a file? Or might you want to make DVD Movie now or later?